Bluefield evening leader. [volume], November 15, 1910, Image 1

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BLUEFIELD EVENING LEADER
ESTABLISHED APRIL 8' 1906 ^ BLUEFIELD. \V. VA.. TUESDAY AFTERNOON. NOVEMBER 13. 1910 * PRICE TWO CENTS
LONGEST TIME WITHIN RECENT
HISTORY THAT NO SERIOUS
ACCIDENT HAS BEEN
REPORTED.
FEW VIOLATIONS OF
THE STATE MINING LAW.
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OPERATORS AND MINERS ARE
STRIVING TO BETTER THE
GENIAL CONDITIONS.
W. Xicholt-on. mine inspector for
the Eleventh District, left this morn
ing for Davy to inspect the mines of
the Dry Fork branch and in that
vicinity. He knocked on wood when
lie said it, but he declared that the
several fields in this part of the sta'e
have enjoyed a longer kc ison free
from explosions or accidents of any
kind than ever before in their history.
No explosion of any consequence has
occurred for many months, and in the
line of other accidents there has not
even been a slate fall in any of the
mines entailing fatal results.
The reason for this slate of affairs
it is believed exists in the fact that
there is closer inspection, and a
disposition on tho part of both minors
and operators to comply with the
mining laws. Mr. Nicholson hud*
praeM^ally all the mines of his dis
trict In excellent shape. There is a
very decided inclination he says,
among the operators to aid in the
matter of inspection with a view to
protection of life among the miners. !
For several visi*s back to the vari-j
ouh mines no prosecutions for infraol
tions of the state minin'? regulations
have been reported, and the present
tendency appears to be toward bet
tering general conditions.
ELEVATOR IN
The United States Civil Service
Commission announces an examination
at the place and on Dec. 10, postponed
from Nov. 12. to secure eligibles from
which to make certification, to fill a
vacancy in the position of elevator
conductor, lo be employed during the
sessions of the United Slates Court
only, at $‘»oo per annum in the Federal
Building at Bluefield. and vacancies
requiring similar qualifications as they
may occur in the United States classi
fied service in the city, unless it shall
be decided in the interests of the
service to fill the vacancy by rein
statement, transfer, or promotion.
The* examination will consist of the
subjects mentioned below, weighted as
Indicated;
Spelling (twenty simple words In
ordinary use), 10.
Arithmetic (simple tests In addition,
substraetion. multiplication, and dlv
ison’ of whole numbers, and of United
States money). 10.
Letter-writing (a letter of not less
tbnn B)0 words on some subject of
general interest. Competitors may se*
lect one* of the two subjects given l. 10
Penmanship (the handwriting of the
competitor in the subject of copying
from plain copy will be considered
with special reference to the elements
of eligibility, rapidity, neatness, gen
eral appearance, etc.), 10.
Copying from plain copy (a simple
test in copying aceura eiy a few print
ed lines in the competitor's handwrit
ing), 10.
Kiperlence (rated on application.).
50.
Total. 100.
ABLE TO GO HOME.
C. R. Wilson, who was operated
upon mt St. Luke's hospital ten days
ago for appendicitis, wan aide to go
fn his home in South Bluefield this
morning.
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THOMAS WILLIAMS, SUSPECTED
Or MURDERING f-Y EAR-OLD
GIRL. 1C THREATENED BY
INFURIATED MOB.
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A‘ bury Park. N. J., Nov. 13.- Tremb,
i ling lP;o a loaf, frightenbd the
verge of collapse and expecting to be
"T« sted iron liis protector.'- ind tern
I to pieces by r.n infuriated poonlo, Tho
: mas ..illianis, suspect* d ot the mur
. <•< r o nine-year-old Mary Smi*h was
spirited from the lockup boro early
| today to county jail at Freehold.
Williams was taken away this mom
i ing after the mob had been driven
back from the jail. After the mob
"’as disp* rsed lie was taken out by
I «• oClcers and hurried away.
Coroner Purdy announced today he
would not hold an inquest until the
feeling had died down. He will prob
ably be held until next week.
Col. C. O'Leary is in. receipt of a
letter from Pennsylvania written on
the back of some political thunder
which emanated from James H. Loh
of Harrisburg who brands himself as
“first lieutenant. Company B, 45th
Iven'ucky mounted riflemen in our
late unpleasantness.” It is warmish
.stuff, as the reader may judge from
the following reproduction;
Filipinos did it ever occur to you
wha* you are misrdng by not wanting
to become citizens of tills grand coun
try of ours. There isn't anything like
it tinder the sr.n. You ought to send
a delegation over to see us the land
of tin; free - land of fine churches and
40,000 licensed saloons. Bibles, forts
and guns, houses of prosMtutlonfll mil
lionaires and paupers, theologians and
thieves; liberlsts and liars; politicians!
and poverty; Christians and chain!
gangs; schools and scalawags; money
and misery; homes and hunger; virtue
and vice; :i Inml where you get a
good Itible for fifteen cents and a bad
drink of whiskey for five cents; where
we have a man in congress with three
| wives and a lot in the penitentiary
| for having two wives; where we make
[bologna out of dogs, canned beef out
of horses and sic k cows, corpses out
of the people who eat It; where wo
j put a man, in jail for not having
the means of support and on the rook
| pile for asking for a Job of work;
where we license bawdy houses and
fine men for preaching Christ on the
street corners; where we have a Con
gress of 400 men who make laws, a
Supreme Court of nine men who setj
them aside; where good whiskey
makes had men and had men make!
good whiskey; where newspapers are*
paid for suppressing the truth and j
made rich for teaching a lie*; where j
professor.' draw their convictions from!
ithc came place they do t.helr snlnrlc .
i where preachers are paid $25,000 hi
ye ar to dodge the devil and tickle I
the ears of the wealthy; where bu*l
! iiesa consists of getting hold of prop !
, erty in any way that won'; land you
I in the penitentiary; where fortune!
i holds up* and poverty ‘holds down;’;
I where men vote for what they do not
want for fear they will not get what
they do want by voting for it; where
‘niggers' can vote and women can't; j
.where a girl who goes wrong is rnwlej
i sn ontenRt and her male partner
flourishes as a gentleman; where wo-i
men wear false hair and men 'dock'
their horses tails; where the political
wirepuller has displaced the patriotic
statesman; where nun vote for a;
thing one day and cuss It i days; 1
where We have prayers on f •> Poor
of nur National Capitol and whiskey j
in the cellar; where we spend $r»ooi
to bury a statesman who Is rich and
$ld to put aw av a working man who I
is jroor; where to be virtuous is to he
/lonesome and to be honest is to be i
lerank; where we sit on the safet)
valve or energy and pull wide open
the throttle of conscience; where gold
is substance- the one thing sought far
where we pay $15,000 for a dog and
fifteen cents a dozen to a poor won in
for making Rkir‘a; where we topeh'
the untutored Indian eternal life from
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_Prominent Entrants in Coming Hotsg Show_
Prominent entrants in the coming National Horse Show. *n be tick! it Madison Hquart Harden, New York, |
Nov. 12 to 19 inclusive. On the right h Mrs. Adam Heck, of London, Ch >a !». who will drive her own entries in
the show; to her right is Lieut. T. K. Martin. Fourteenth Fnited States Cav a!:*>, v.ho is looked upon an a wlnn r
In the competitions between cavalry oflicers of Hie I'nited States and foreign nations; and below’, "Tiny” the I
smallest, prize winning pony in the world, owned by Walter inans, w.n is an American, bin who lias always
lived in England. Many new and Interesting features] have been added to this year’s r. octal v\ enis of the year
as well as an exhibition of the line it gathering of hor30*> in tie world, 'l’lie rivalry in tin- saddle horse classes
which is very keen, will be between exhibitors ;*trib wjid. > ’id pstn. Pi «h». 1’nitrd states, Kentucky.
Virginia and Pennsylvania being particularly promt per A . • ! : h« known riders in the vicinity of New York.
MANAGER TAKES
COUNT iil FIRST
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There was a liyelv one-round go
Inst night between Edward Marly
manager of the'“Cat and Piddle," at
the Elks’ Ope? a lions- an I Chief of
Pol lee Pos'lownllo in v.'iilclt the the*
atrleal man wr:s not only knocked
out by a flat-hended swipe on the
larboard Hide of his eountqimnce. bu
got a week,'-, output of a stwc factory
Imprinted on hi# rear elevation as he
was ruthlessly l>url« rl from the build
Ing.
It appears that tlv show man who
with the rest of ids company, is said
to have been more or loss saturated,
this in-lug the first wet town struck
for a good spell, made himself ob
noxious by questioning pisses fumed
by th'1 housi’ management. To rap
this, he persisted In smoking curur
ettes In the foyer. When Mike Htu
polsky, who was on the door, request
ed him to deslft as this was against ,
mien he wanted to know what the
blankety blank hell be hud to do with
it. Mr. Htupol ky asked Chief I’ogll*'
w-att to Intervene, and the way lie In
tervened was nothing slow. Manly
propunded ‘he same question, and
wanted to know If the Chief had a
pass. Th question of a pais van not
argued hut the flu handed, monopls- •*
land coupled wl‘h the shoc-fn tcry ev
tra did the work, and Manage r Manly
was good for the rest of the evening.
The stage efforts connect.d with
the show wen good, but the prest na
tion was about a - rotten ar If r.Ml
could have been.
'I be refn inn cA K. K. Woodrlng,
aged who d|< <j in Tacoma, Waah
ir.gton of heart failure, on InHt Wed
mariny uaa brought to the city thiH
morning on train No. I. over tho
Norfolk & Western it all road and tak
en to his old bom*' at II1X Marshall
afreet. He waa the only son of Mr.
and .Mrs. U. W. Woodrlng and leaves
two Hist era.
Mr. Woodrlng left tins city about
eight yearn ago for the state of Wa-'i- ,
ington, and from that time Had be. n
running as an engine* r on one of ,
the Western roads. He "as it o >i
time nn « ngin< er on the PoeahotV o-i
Division of the .Norfolk ,■ We tern and
whh well liked by all who know htm.
7 lie m-wfl of bis dea'h v» as a y -eat
shock *o hia many frlendH. Mr
Woodring is a me on be r of tin M of I,
K No. 4 4x, Hlueflold. A. K. and A M.
No. #!», find also Chapter No 20 »t
Minefield.
The funeral under the direction of
the M K H. K. will be held at <!.«•
Miami afreet M. K, Chureh Wednesday*
afternoon at 230, the remains loa\
ing the house a» *i.
The interment will follow at Maple
Park Cemetery.
(!. W. l arge of the Mricol Casket1
Company, of Bristol Tenn., was in
the city o»day and left for Pocahon!
tan and Welch on a business trip
Mr. Large, while in the city visited the1
Minefield Undertaking Company and’
sold It a nice lot of caskets.
Hrlstol, \ ,i.. November In. Scot I
J* M. a young man. i in i dying **,ndi
• bill, 1*It. 1 • > )i>r, C| : retire Jett. and
'iseir tniiier, William Jett the latter
a wealthy firmer and mock raiser,
are dang, roiislv wound* (I as Hu result
of a feud ii\ the family, which broke
loose at their home near M'Uiodtn
V’a., Saturday. The fa: her is said to
have li*eu drinking heavily when lv
Interfered with bis sons who were
about to dispose of their properly with
a view to leaving bis home.
The father is said to have tired up
on fico'i Jott with a revolver, send
ing a ball between hi ; rl »h and into
his abdoiM n. t'iaren* ' Jett appeared
and was sbo: In fl.r neck by bis fa
flier. Or* of the son returned tin
shot and flu* ii.Hl entered bis f« her s
breast a few inches above Hi* lie*it.
'No- father and t’larei. e .I n will
probably recover but there appears to
be no elmnc* for Scott Jett, Til* fam
ily ih will known in Hrlstol, the fa
iJiei b* ;ng a brother of the late f'apt.
John W\ Jett, who was many years
prominent in l.m in*in Hrlstol.
Mr. and Mrs I). Ratcliff, of Clarks
burg. Is In the city on a visit. Mr.
Ratcliff v. is formally i conductor on
the I’orahontns Division of the Nor
folk Western runninr out of this
city.
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T. King of Ronton, connected with
th< Ka it'm Rorahorrtns ( onl f o i -
r ny, returned home ycsterd.v nf-rr
u visit of several days.
COUNTY COURT
SETS SATURATED
A REPUBLICAN MACHINE 13
WRECKED AND TWO MEMBERS
OF BODY CO WET—INTO
BRUSH CREEK.
A Republican nine'/. I no wa « wreck
ed la. i nip!'! and (ho o/or.ty c m: (
at least t ao members oi It v ent very
decidedly we*. » . we* u: ary rate ns
t .< w. ur of liruuh Crc/U could po:1
iildy i inlvo tiiciu, although they are
: nrntully ii/y. l!‘:s luirdly a joke, but
Fol. \ . rtiahr, member of the
O’nty c > ;rt, ; ci (■///1 , uk d by Finest
Freeman, pivsi km: aid k\ r. Farter,
Deputy F*a rirr, v. ••re returning from
riuceicu v i > re a i :♦•< ting of the court
ad k an held, the Colonel's mn
control
ital the cur ard occupants were
’.rown In *o the turbulent torrent,
n « car look to skidding nnd :ko color
Irlvcr could not get it s -pped.
Mr. Freeman wan e/nsldornbly j
in;l|dU. biii ikj. s :>i uisiy hurt, ik*
or.d it few slight aerate', os *h • ot!u r
..eiubiof the party were not. hurt,
mt all got i diicklug s.nd the niach n * !
a.; badly ciarnay:!.
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l'l> to the present chv*o in November
In- coal niovi motif according to N »r
olk f Western olllclals has boon tho
heaviest In the history of tho roart.j
ami If th' movement' eoi/JnucB. Nov
ernner will break ail records. In idill
ff( n to i ho <0111 thcro has be< n a very
decided Improve nef in <• ike. wlilelt
ol Into riiofi; || Ims not been :slio'"li)p
any very tnnrkml activity.
' lie <len ami is about equally <ii'. Id
<1 between t|;e Iif iml the \ , i
•bd u* nn mil a h< nilliv growth !.-•
II ill hotil MOCliOlS.
NEW GIRL.
Loin io .Mr. and .Mrs. Ilownnl Tuy
<>r, South Miami street, a daughter.
Samuel < ompors. President of t e
Xmeriran Federation of Labor, who
recently arrived In New York, in or
der *lia' lie 11 tv give advice to union
1* vier« participating in he exprr -f.
eon ponies employes stn.ce In Nov
Yo-k. Am soon a-t he arrived, Presi
dent <»omperM gatherr d together Na
tional labor leaders and a conference
was I e|d, at which flic entire general
-’•trike situation war gone over and the
rdviruibility of n railing of a goner
ai strike was discussed. At thhs time
It is not known what derision war
reached, but it is believed that a gon
• r»I .-trike, of til kinds of drivers
from ♦hr but.*her wagons to hackv r
and taxi drivers would he called.
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JURY WAS INSTRUCTED HY AT
TORNEY-CENCRAL TO BRINQ
A VERDICT OF N^T GUILTY.
IN CASE.
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TRIED FOR MURDER
OF SENATOR CARMACK
WAS FIRST CONVICTED AND SEN
TENCCD TO TV/ENTY YEARS
IN THE PENITENTIARY.
Nuuhvlllc, Nov. 15.—Robin Cooper
wus iictmiucil at hl« retrial In crlm
in.'il it. .it today for the immler~"of
Senator t urn'.cl: af.or tho jury bud
be«n in;*; meted to briux In verdict
of net guilty.
It wus on the reeom•Herniation of
;* e attorney Kenernl that tho court
ordered .-tech ji verdict returned.
t armaek wn:> shot in death Nov.
ti. 1U0K. You UK Cooper ” ; convicted
at the tr!.i| and sentenced to twenty
years but tvit granted a new trial by
‘be stale .mproiue court.
ELECTION RETURNS
T! o County Court met in mr ad
, urn* (i H<*H!iion u i’riti cton yeater*
day to tunvas.; tin* election returns
tK required by law. Tlte work waa
••ompPted I Me in the afternon and no
Material change-< were made in tlio
results heretoforo printed. Thoy |‘ol*
low
For Congress.
I A Hughes. 3,174
Itnnkln Wiley . 2,836
Hughes’ majority .-. 338
For State S'ina'e.
I). IS. French . 3,043
IS. H. linker . 2.947
Freneh'H majority . 99
For HouKe of Delegates.
; W. R Pendleton . 3,025
If. II. Steele . 3,013
W. A kora . 2,953
j \Y. I’. Hawley .. 2.87S
l’endleton, Item,, Steele Rep.,
t leeted.
For County Court.
Wilbur Lilly . 3,258
J M. (’alien . 2,811
l Illy h majority . 449
F o:• County Supt. of Schools.
J I Holroyd . 3,330
W. M. Hurd 2.379
Ho tyd'a major!'/ 6JS
Constitutional Amenciments.
For Firat Amendment . 541
Against Amendment 1.049
For He* oud Amendment 308
Ag.iiriH! Aim-ndm* i.f 980
Rotll lOHt.
for Justice B*^vcr Pond District.
«!. If. Hillard 1,125
Williams .... 917
Dillard's* major! 211
For constable.
.1* run t MPchell .... 1,212
Roaeoe I!* ek<*f 971
i■< in 11'-. ma.ur i. ... 241
i" jr Board of Education.
Thotnaa .... . 1,119
Dawson 938
Thomas’ majorlt/. . . 151
Riven*. 1,217
Hunt . 932
Rivetin' n jority . 255
DELIGHTFUL THEATRE PARTY
t. AST NIGHT
• Mr. Villlim K. Rovr; was the host
at a delightful theatre party last night
to s< e "The Cat and he Fiddle.”
1 iu pleasant affair was In cclebra
tlon *>f tin- recent D mocratic victory.
1 elng the fulfillment of * pri'-ejectlon
promise to his, fellow-boarders at Mr*.
Reddick's charming home.
The following enjoyed Mr. Ross'*
hospitality;
Mr. and Mrs. Reddick. Mr. and Mr*.
Hall* nback, Mr. and Mr*. Fudge. Air.
end Mr*. Morrissey, Mrs, Otvynne,
Mb Ruff, Halley, i.’asley, Gosling,
end Mcscr . ."Ihirey. T.lllr Sirlngfeilow,
Lynch.
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